{"id":1483336,"date":"2017-05-21T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=2ac2f613423db8bae5c27c041faf2789"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:18:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:18:25","slug":"collared-pratincole-and-other-interesting-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/collared-pratincole-and-other-interesting-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Collared Pratincole and other interesting birds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phil Roberts and I went to Haradh in late April to look for migrants and other birds. We set off at 03:00 hrs and arrived at 06:00 hrs. Birding was not exactly stunning but a few good birds were seen in our day out. Birds we do not see often in the Eastern Province included three Black-crowned Night Herons.<\/p>\n

A Spur-winged Lapwing appeared to be defending a territory aggressively from other birds suggesting it might be breeding. This species has not been recorded breeding in the Eastern Province before.<\/p>\n

We also saw four more Spur-winged Lapwings in another area of Haradh. A small group of Common Swift were over a large pivot irrigation field and a small group of five Collared Pratincole were in another field. A single Pallid Harrier was seen but no other birds of prey.<\/p>\n

The most common birds were Namaqua Doves and Crested Larks.<\/p>\n

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Collared Pratincole<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Black-crowned Night Herons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Black-crowned Night Herons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Spur-winged Lapwing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Collared Pratincole<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Common Swift<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Crested Lark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Namaqua Dove<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Rock Dove<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Phil Roberts and I went to Haradh in late April to look for migrants and other birds. We set off at 03:00 hrs and arrived at 06:00 hrs. Birding was not exactly stunning but a few good birds were seen in our day out. Birds we do not see often in the Eastern Province included […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2148668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[1131,1203,2948,2736,745,2865,8178],"class_list":["post-1483336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-collared-pratincole","tag-crested-lark","tag-lapwing","tag-namaqua-dove","tag-pallid-harrier","tag-rock-dove","tag-spur-winged-lapwing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1483336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1483336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1483336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1483336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}